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   i just finished reading all of the debate over there regarding fluted barrels. hard to believe that such a debate has been started over THIS!
i am no scientist or engineer, but the impressions i came away with were this:
a) fluted barrels offer (very) minor cooling advantages
b) you can flute a barrel and not take away any strength/stiffness, but you cannot flute barrel and ADD strength/stiffness.
c) people want a fluted barrel because it "looks cool" and seem to feel a need to justify that with fuzzy science and engineering.
reading the whole thing, i kept thinking of the "design" of an eggshell, how nature came up with this very light but very strong design. seems to me that all of us sitting in front of us cannot improve on natures designs.

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TasunkaWitko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator aka The Gipper Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Chinook Montana Status: Offline Points: 14753	Topic: www.flutedbarrels.com Posted: 13 July 2003 at 04:30
	i just finished reading all of the debate over there regarding fluted barrels. hard to believe that such a debate has been started over THIS! i am no scientist or engineer, but the impressions i came away with were this: a) fluted barrels offer (very) minor cooling advantages b) you can flute a barrel and not take away any strength/stiffness, but you cannot flute barrel and ADD strength/stiffness. c) people want a fluted barrel because it "looks cool" and seem to feel a need to justify that with fuzzy science and engineering. reading the whole thing, i kept thinking of the "design" of an eggshell, how nature came up with this very light but very strong design. seems to me that all of us sitting in front of us cannot improve on natures designs. Edited by TasunkaWitko
	TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen

D.F.C. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .30/06 SpringField Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 499	Posted: 13 July 2003 at 05:44
	"people want a fluted barrel because it "looks cool" and seem to feel a need to justify that with fuzzy science and engineering" I'm always amazed when I read the statements written by my fellow shooters. Most of which don't know squat about what their talking about. And then there's the ones that just flat tell a lie. Speaking of lies, I love a digital camera, they will keep a guy honest. Dan

TasunkaWitko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator aka The Gipper Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Chinook Montana Status: Offline Points: 14753	Posted: 13 July 2003 at 06:32
	dan - i mentioned this fact, but i should have emphasized, i am no engineer and frankly don't know diddly about this particular subject. these were only my impressions/opinions and i could easily be wrong, of course. i was just going with what i had read on that thread and from listening to people around here talk about them. my comment that you quoted was added more as an after-thought than anything else. i remembered hearing one guy saying how much he wanted one. i asked why? and he said cause it looks so cool. good enough reason, i suppose. no need to embellish it with "fuzzy science," as i said. don't know squat about it? true, and i don't mind admitting it. flat-out lying? naw, not me. especially on BSB, cause we've got good members to keep peeps honest. speaking of digital cameras, i want one!! Edited by TasunkaWitko
	TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen

pocketnavy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 12 June 2003 Location: Antarctica Status: Offline Points: 612	Posted: 13 July 2003 at 07:23
	I'm with you Tash . . . there are some advantages . . . or they wouldn't do it . . . but I doubt if fluting your Marlin is going to shake the gunworld! Krieger flutes some barrels. See their website at www.kriegerbarrels.com Beyond what I read about it . . . I don't know much either. Suspect Dan knows more about it than most of us. I did appreciate High Masters final comment on Shooters. Kind of layed it all to rest. BUT . . . it does look cool!

D.F.C. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .30/06 SpringField Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 499	Posted: 13 July 2003 at 09:18
	Ron, I wasn't beating you up on the quote. I took it for granted you were relaying what you had read about the subject online. Dan

EDip Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 12 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 562	Posted: 14 July 2003 at 07:50
	I hope the Shooters thing doesn't carry over here. I'm quite sure this won't help. - Tas, your statement b.), I know it's not yours, is flawed. Fluting a given barrel will WEAKEN it structurally. A fluted bbl of equal mass or cross section area as an unfluted one is structurally stronger. Think of an I-beam cross section and a round bar of equal area. Only an idiot will not understand that the I-beam properly loaded is far superior. If you machine a given piece of round bar stock into a cross section of an I-beam, I can guarantee it is MUCH inferior to original round stock. I'm shocked to see one of our fellow posters agreeing with HM on Shooters. HM is a typical RESIDENT EXPERT there and doesn't know his ** from a hole in the ground.* Sorry, Keep BSB in a pure state as it has been. DFC - I don't always agree with you, but like your comment. Gene Dipzinski(EDip)

klallen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby The RockChucker Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2331	Posted: 14 July 2003 at 13:04
	I was under the impression that folks fluted their barrels so they could throw paint down the channels to match it up with their candy apple read synthetic stocks.